Chelsea Give Eidur Barcelona Permission
Chelsea have given Eidur Gudjohnsen permission to travel to Barcelona to open talks with the European champions on a possible ?8m deal. Gudjohnsen has been linked in the past few months to English clubs Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur but unsurprisingly his number one target is Barcelona who have enthralled all of European football this season with their attacking brand of football.
Gudjohnsen will be offered a three year deal at the Nou Camp as Barcelona complete their mission to replace Henrik Larsson who is returning to Sweden to play for Helsingborgs after playing a pivotal role in Barcelona’s European Cup final comeback against Arsenal after coming on as a second half substitute.
Despite being at Chelsea for six years, Gudjohnsen never really established himself as a first team regular and with chances limited even further over the past year after Chelsea signed Dider Drogba and Hernan Crespo returned from a loan spell at AC Milan, the Icelandic star now feels that it is better for his career to leave Stamford Bridge for pastures new and with Barcelona interested it seems to have been a wise choice.
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